Tiktok videos: Thanks to her ex-husband, Tareasa gets her own TV show

For over eight hours, Tareasa Johnson has been tearing apart her relationship with her ex-husband on Tiktok – and millions of people are hanging on her every word. “She is a born storyteller,” enthuses the TimeIn 2020, the American from Atlanta started a 50-part video series called “Who the hell did I get married?!?” In the first part, she admits: “I missed so many red flags, you must think I’m colorblind.”

Since then, her Tiktok following has grown from 8,000 to 3.6 million and her videos have been played over 400 million times. That is why several production studios recently fought a battle over who would be allowed to film the story as a TV series. ABC Signature won the bid, and actress Natasha Rothwell (43) will play Johnson, as diversity reported. It’s just the latest example of how a viral hit on social media can be a springboard to Hollywood.

Generation Alpha is currently celebrating the YouTube series “Skibidi Toilet” with its humanoid toilet bowls that want to take over the world. Five years ago, no one in Hollywood would have been interested in this story, says US marketing professor Charles Lindsey to the New York TimesBut recently, star director Michael Bay (59) announced that he wants to turn the YouTube show with the talking toilets into a kind of second Marvel universe. The entire media sector is much more interconnected and the crossover potential has become greater.